Security Affairs

APRIL 13, 2025

Cell C, one of the biggest telecom providers in South Africa confirms a data breach following a 2024 cyberattack. They continue to monitor for potential data misuse and urge vigilance against fraud, phishing, and identity theft. healthcare providers surged in 2024, with 98 attacks compromising 117 million records.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2025

The security breach occurred on December 13, 2023, but the company discovered the incident only on April 18, 2024, and has only now disclosed it due to the complexity of the digital forensic investigation. The law firm recommends individuals to monitor accounts and credit reports for identity theft or fraud.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2025

Legends International disclosed a data breach from November 2024 that affected employees and visitors to its managed venues. On November 9, 2024, Legends International detected unauthorized activity on its IT systems, took action to stop it, and launched an investigation with the help of external cybersecurity experts.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2025

Noah Urban, a 20-year-old from Palm Coast, pleaded guilty to conspiracy, wire fraud, and identity theft in two federal cases, one in Florida and another in California. In January 2024, U.S. Urban, known online as Sosa and King Bob, is linked to the same group that hacked Twilio and other companies in 2022. .

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2025

has been active sunce 2018, the platform offered for sale compromised credentials and PII used by crooks for tax fraud, credit card fraud, and identity theft. Kosovo police arrested Masurica (aka @blackdb) on December 12, 2024. In December 2024, the U.S. The online criminal marketplace BlackDB.cc Assistant U.S.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

According to the data breach notification sent to the impacted individuals, threat actors had access to its systems between August 17, 2023, and June 15, 2024. “On or about June 15, 2024, Slim CD became aware of suspicious activity in its computer environment. ” reads the data breach notification. .”

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 16, 2024

For nearly a dozen years, residents of South Carolina have been kept in the dark by state and federal investigators over who was responsible for hacking into the state’s revenue department in 2012 and stealing tax and bank account information for 3.6 In January 2024, authorities in Australia, the United States and the U.K.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

VIPRE Security Group’s latest report, “Email Security in 2024: An Expert Insight into Email Threats,” delves into the cutting-edge tactics and technologies embraced by cybercriminals this year. Key Findings from the “Email Security in 2024” Report In an exhaustive review, VIPRE processed 7.2

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

9, 2024, U.S. authorities arrested a 19-year-old Florida man charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiring with others to use SIM-swapping to steal cryptocurrency. Multiple security firms soon assigned the hacking group the nickname “ Scattered Spider.” Twilio disclosed in Aug.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 15, 2024

For this research, Malwarebytes conducted a pulse survey of its newsletter readers between September 5 and 16, 2024, via the Alchemer Survey platform. Amidst this broader turbulence, 32% are “concerned about who could learn [their] vote”—be they family, spouses, or cybercriminals. In total, 1600 people across the globe responded.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2025

In October 2024, the Dutch police announced it has dismantled the infrastructure used by RedLine and Meta infostealers as part of an international law enforcement operation led by Eurojust that was code-named Operation Magnus. Long-term monitoring : Regularly check for unusual account activity to guard against potential identity theft.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2025

In May 2024, the Justice Department unsealed charges against an Arizona woman, a Ukrainian man, and three unidentified foreign nationals accused of aiding overseas IT workers, pretending to be U.S. “Today’s multimillion-dollar forfeiture action reflects the Department’s strategic focus on disrupting these illicit revenue schemes.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The data breach occurred on July 15, 2024, and was discovered on August 30, 2024. We received those results on August 30, 2024, and worked with counsel to determine which individuals to notify.” “In early July, we detected unauthorized activity in one of our internal applications.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 20, 2025

The incident occurred around July 6, 2024, and exposed people’s personal information. “PSEA experienced a security incident on or about July 6, 2024 that impacted our network environment. . PSEAprovided one year of free credit monitoring and identity restoration services to the impacted individuals.

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Webroot

APRIL 22, 2025

In 2024, more than 1.3 Chances are youve received at least one of these letters, which means you have been put at risk for identity theft and major financial losses. Data breaches occur when sensitive, protected, or confidential data is hacked or leaked from a company or organization.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Related: Class-action lawsuits pile up in wake of NPD hack So what’s the connection? The data began leaking in April 2024, and by summer, it was being sold on the dark web for $3.5 This drives public awareness of the risks associated with identity theft. NPD reported the exposure of over 2.7 billion records.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2024

According to the notification letter sent to the impacted individuals, the security breach occurred between July 7, 2023 and October 15, 2023 and was discovered on March 25, 2024. “While there is no indication of any identity theft or fraud occurring as a result of this incident. The investigation remains ongoing.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2024

These findings coincide with the critical and fast-approaching Indonesian presidential election set to take place in February this year (2024). Just before the onset of 2024, an individual known as Kimbo disclosed details regarding a suspected breach of the General Elections Commission of Indonesia’s (KPU) information system.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

org pic.twitter.com/QvDTp7WTZk — Dominic Alvieri (@AlvieriD) June 7, 2024 The Community Clinic of Maui, also known as Mālama I Ke Ola Health Center, is a nonprofit healthcare organization dedicated to serving the Maui community. “On May 7, 2024, Malama experienced a cybersecurity incident that impacted connectivity to our network.”

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

“We discovered on August 5, 2024, that an unauthorized third party gained access to one of our business applications. “Based on our investigation, we determined that the unauthorized access occurred between August 3, 2024, and August 6, 2024.”

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Webroot

APRIL 4, 2025

Imagine waking up one day to find that someone has stolen your identity, opened credit cards in your name, or even withdrawn money from your bank accounts. In our interconnected world, data breaches and identity theft are a constant threat, making it more important than ever to guard your sensitive personal information.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 18, 2025

Legends International disclosed a data breach from November 2024 that affected employees and visitors to its managed venues. On November 9, 2024, Legends International detected unauthorized activity on its IT systems, took action to stop it, and launched an investigation with the help of external cybersecurity experts.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 31, 2025

According to the data breach notification shared with Maine’s attorney general , threat actors gained access to the CHC network in mid-October 2024, but the organization discovered the security breach only on January 2, 2025. The company that a skilled cybercriminal was behind the attack.

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 13, 2024

Billion Records [link] pic.twitter.com/Tt8UNppPSu — Dark Web Intelligence (@DailyDarkWeb) April 8, 2024 Back then, the breach was attributed to "USDoD", a name to remember as you'll see that throughout this post. The embedded image is the first reference of the 2.9B for the data. Hacker “Fenice” leaked 2.9b

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 14, 2024

According to the data breach notification letter shared with Maine’s Attornet General Office , on March 2, 2024, the company observed the disruption of access to certain IT systems. The investigation revealed that threat actors breached the organization’s network on or about February 22, 2024.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 20, 2024

District Court claims that NPD experienced a data breach around April 2024, alleging the following: Sensitive data , such as full names, current and previous addresses (going back at least 30 years), Social Security numbers, and details about family members, including some who have been deceased for nearly two decades, were compromised.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2024

The company discovered the security breach on March 10, 2024, the attack impacted some corporate systems. “After a thorough investigation, we determined that certain information maintained on our corporate systems was accessed by the unauthorized actor between March 7-11, 2024.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The Raccoon stealer is written in C++ by Russian-speaking developers who initially promoted it exclusively on Russian-speaking hacking forums. The malware is now promoted on English-speaking hacking forums, it works on both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems. The price of the Raccoon service is $200 per month to use. in restitution.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 10, 2024

Securities and Exchange Commission (@SECGov) January 9, 2024 The unauthorized post (which was removed within 30 minutes) looked like this: The post says: “Today the SEC grants approval to Bitcoin ETFs for listing on registered national security exchanges. The @SECGov X account was compromised, and an unauthorized post was posted.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2024

The data breach occurred on May 30, 2023, and was discovered on February 7, 2024. We received confirmation of which individuals’ information was affected and obtained their contact addresses on February 7, 2024.” The company announced that it deleted DOJ data from its systems after the incident.

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Identity IQ

JULY 8, 2024

The dataset was posted on a prominent hacking forum on July 4 in a file titled “RockYou2024.txt” The availability of such a vast number of passwords significantly increases the risk of cyber-attacks, potentially leading to unauthorized access to personal and corporate accounts, identity theft, and financial loss.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 12, 2024

“On November 18, 2024, Byte Federal became aware of a security breach by a bad actor who gained unauthorized access to one of our servers by exploiting a vulnerability in GitLab, a third party software platform commonly used by developers worldwide for project management and collaboration with comprehensive security features.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Israeli man sentenced to 80 months in prison for providing hacker-for-hire services Russian APT Gamaredon uses USB worm LitterDrifter against Ukraine The board of directors of OpenAI fired Sam Altman Medusa ransomware gang claims the hack of Toyota Financial Services CISA adds Sophos Web Appliance bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (..)

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Gov imposes visa restrictions on individuals misusing Commercial Spyware HPE is investigating claims of a new security breach Experts warn of a surge of attacks targeting Ivanti SSRF flaw How to hack the Airbus NAVBLUE Flysmart+ Manager Crooks stole $25.5

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Computer Fraud & Abuse Act (CFAA) The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) addresses unauthorized access to computer systems and data, criminalizing hacking, identity theft, and fraud. The act also covers various forms of cybercrime, including malware distribution and data theft. You can unsubscribe at any time.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 29, 2024

Now, victims’ names, Social Security numbers, financial information, and medical information may be in the hands of criminals, putting victims at a greater risk of identity theft and other frauds.” ” reads a press release published by the company. ” concludes the notification.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 2, 2024

They can lead to identity theft, financial fraud, private data breaches, and more as a result of accounts being compromised. This year's World Password Day on May 2nd should be a wake-up call for everyone to strengthen their password practices. The consequences of weak passwords are severe.

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